First True Entry — My Impression
First of all: SPORE IS FREAKIN’ AWESOME
Moving on, some people might accuse me of being a hypocrite for being a creationist and playing an evolution game. I’d like to say that I have no problems with it. It’s an evolution game. I wouldn’t go out and kill people, but I enjoy GTA all the same. Moving away from the religious topic, I think Spore is practically 5 games in one, making it an even better deal than the Orange Box, since it also has editor for nearly everything. I’ll give my opinion on each phase individually.
Cell Phase: Looks like a fun time waster, and would make a good game by itself, something like Solitaire or Minesweeper that you play when you’re bored and nothing else seems fun. The fact that it leads to a full blown creature is a huge bonus.
Creature Phase: Seeing how just MAKING the creatures is incredibly fun, being able to finally play with them (or kill them off) will probably be the most fun thing I’ve done all year. I’m looking forward to starting up a squad of my creatures and hunting down an Epic.
Tribal Phase: Something I’ve been looking forward to for a while, I’ll probably spend a few hours designing my huts before I even start “Playing”. Seeing husbandry in the game just adds to the depth of this, apparently short, phase of the game.
Civilization Phase: Being a major Civ fan, being able to build an empire with my creatures should be awesome, especially since there’s no turn based play and I’ll be able to design my buildings and units. I’ll most likely go Economic the first time through, but nuking everyone will have to be an option at some point…
Space Phase: Need it be said? The greatest phase in the game! As soon as I get to this point, no cow in the game will be safe. I’ll probably abduct a few hundred creatures, dump them on a barely habitable planet, and blow them to kingdom come. That or I’ll reduce an inhabited planet to smoldering magma… either way, fun!
Overall: SPORE IS FREAKIN’ AWESOME!!!
Hope you enjoyed that.
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August 11th, 2008 at 11:04 am
Maybe you could take all the cows and dump them on a planet with a hostile population. Their combined bottom burpings would up the methane content in the atmosphere, the thicker gas trapping more heat and causing runaway global warming, causing the sea levels to rise and wiping out their civilization!
I literally cannot wait for this game, I’m like Cartman waiting for the Wii, pacing back and forth outside GAME. Thank God I get it on the 5th here in the UK instead of the 7th.
Frankly, I haven’t been this excited about a game since Rome Total War, and even that thrill pales beside this.
Oh, and wonderful site by the way. I love the colourful menus and the enthusiasm and ease of use is sterling. There are other excellent sites out there on Spore, but for me this is by far the most pleasant to look at and with equally splendid content. Well done!
Cheers!
Nervouspete
(It’s my Spore Creature Creator name too)